Who’s having a better week, me or Ben Affleck?

It’s been a good/bad week for Ben Affleck. On Wednesday morning, his Argo was nominated for seven BAFTA‘s, including one for him as director. That night, the movie lost best dramatic movie at the People’s Choice Awards to The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Then in the early morning hours of Thursday, he was denied a best director nod during the Academy Award nominations announcements, although the film did get one for best picture as well as six others.

And later that night, Argo scored best picture and best director wins from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, made up of about 250 television, radio and online critics, including our own area’s Lights Camera Jackson. (Spoiler alert: The teenaged YNN film critic put the drama at the top of his best of 2012 list and voted for it for the big prizes.) Finally, last night’s Golden Globes was further validation for the actor-director-producer; he again won best director and best dramatic movie honors.

I know exactly how he feels. Yeah, you see, I’ve been having a real hit and miss week when it comes to predicting the winners and nominees at the various movie awards. Out of the 14 categories devoted to movies at the Golden Globes, I guessed six correctly, or a dismal 42 percent. Interestingly, I did better with my “should wins” – eight out of 14, or 57 percent.

Now, I got a passing grade, albeit one that equates to a C+, when it came to the Oscar nominations. I tried to read the collective minds of the Academy in the top eight categories – picture, director, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, adapted screenplay, original screenplay – and matched up 34 out of 44 times. That’s a solid 77 percent. Though the fact that the Academy only fielded nine contenders in the best picture arena while I had gone with nine skews the data in some direction that my math-challenged brain can’t follow.